Monday 26 June 2017

Hints and Tips About Car Speakers in the UK



Are you thinking of replacing your car speakers? If so, you might find some of the information in this article useful. Today, we are going to provide you with a brief overview of car speakers in the UK. By the time you reach the end of this article, we hope that we have answered some of your questions.

Tip 1: Factory-Installed Speakers are Low Quality
If you still have factory-installed speakers in your car, then we recommend you change them. The majority of car manufactures don’t have the sound system as a selling point and so they pay little attention to the quality of the speakers. 



Tip 2: An Amplifier Will Help You to Achieve Crisper & Clearer Sound at High Volumes
If you find that your car speakers UK tends to distort when played at high volume, then it’s probably because there is not enough power coming from the head unit to drive each of the speakers.

When this happens, you will end up with oddities in sound, e.g. the words will stretch out longer than they should, or the music will suddenly speed up and slow down.

These types of distortion indicate that your speakers need more power, and consequently that your stereo system requires an amplifier.

Tip 3: A Sub-Woofer Will Bring More Nuance to Your Music
If you have the space to add a subwoofer, then it’s definitely worth it. you'd be surprised by how much extra depth they will bring to your music. You'll hear notes and tones that you’ve never noticed before, even when listening to your favourite songs. It can make your favourites songs sound like new again, so it’s definitely worth it.

Tip 4: Sound Deadening Material Can Improve Your Speakers
Cars have many hard surfaces and this means that the music can have a lot of reverberation. This leads to tinny and cracked sounds and lessens the sound quality of your car speakers UK. To help them perform their best, you should add sound deadening material to these surfaces. This will enable them to absorb the sound and prevent interference.

If you would like further help and advice about anything written above and all things car audio, then please visit https://www.incarmusic.co.uk/.


Thursday 15 June 2017

Local Knowledge Better To Get



The internet is not for nothing also referred to as the World Wide Web. There’s nothing to stop a person in one country ordering goods from another.



But sometimes, local service is the best and that’s particularly the case when some professional advice is also required.

For instance, recently I wanted to upgrade the poor sound system in my car. Looking at all the choices of component parts on the internet it all got a bit confusing.

It was much easier to find a car audio near me that was able to suggest the best solution for my make and model car.

Cars are not always the most acoustically greatest areas. The trouble it seems is that despite the fact a box like place should work, it doesn’t because of the different materials. 

Sound waves will bounce off the metallic areas but will get absorbed by cloth such as the seats. There is another problem and this is the road noise from outside. The very expensive luxury limousines are manufactured with plenty of dampening material.

If yours is a fairly standard make of car then it’s not a difficult job to add some material that will help dampen out these noises.

The other major advantage of having a car audio specialist outlet near to where you live is the fitting. Most car audio centres offer a fitting service. Since some rewiring may be required especially if extra speakers are being fitted, it’s safer to let someone well versed in the job to complete it.

All cars have a slightly different shape and audio solutions are an important part of the design of a new car.
Many car manufacturers have a dedicated team of audio engineers that are given a prototype of a new model to play around with the positioning of speakers and amp.

Luxury cars especially have to get the speaker placement just right. Many luxury cars have thousands of pounds worth of hi-fi and an array of twenty speakers or more.

For a car audio near me https://www.incarmusic.co.uk/
  

Tuesday 28 March 2017

Hands Off But Still Take Care



A generation or two ago the idea of chatting on a phone whilst driving was not just a dream of a distant piece of science fiction.

If they had existed they would have been impossible to use. That’s because back then, cars were extremely noisy and without any power steering always took two hands on the steering wheel just to keep on the road.

Mind you, there were far fewer vehicles on the roads and therefore less to distract the driver. Today cars have come a very long way in design and technical advancement. With heating and air-con as the norm and comfortable seats and surroundings it’s a relaxing environment for driver and passengers.

Music systems are at worst just average and at best are often better than that multi-thousand pound one back in the living room.

Bluetooth and hand free controls means it should never be necessary to take even one hand off the wheel when driving. Every safety survey carried out over recent years reveals how important this is.

The latest handfree car kits installation should be fitted in all vehicles today.
Most worrying and known cause of many accidents, is the mobile phone. It’s not just that one hand is needed to hold the phone, but often the call becomes the centre of attention. It may be some work related problem or a distressed call from a friend or relative.

And so it clearly makes sense that there are now high penalties for people using their phone or other mobile device whilst driving.

And yet many want to take this a step further and ban even the use of hands free phones. It’s become such an issue that car manufacturers are being asked by various transport as well as health and safety bodies for a method to cut all phone signals when a car is being driven.

But meanwhile, if you don’t want 6 points and a £200 fine for holding your phone whilst driving, get a hands free system fitted now.

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Another Night Call

Fortunately car alarms are not as sensitive as they were many years ago. Living in the city meant being woken almost nightly with some nearby parked car’s alarm going off.

Just the rush of a passing car or even a strong wind could start them. The trouble is that they became almost meaningless. Nobody bothered to take much notice as there were too many false alarms.

They’re a lot better these days although there are other less anti-social ways to protect your car.
Immobilising the vehicle is one way and there are several different ways to do this. A key fob that alerts the owner without the potential thief knowing is another.

And perhaps all car owners should hide some sort of tracking device so that if the car is stolen the police will be able to track its progress.

Most car alarm installation and tracking devices are an after-market fit as original manufacturers don’t fit them apart from some very expensive and known brand targets. Many of these are stolen to order and some, just for their low mileage engine.


These end up in containers shipped to the other side of the world.

There was a story around many years ago of a smart thief that knocked late at night at the door of a stranger. You can tell how old this story is because he didn’t have a mobile phone.

He asked the owner of the house whether he could make a quick phone call to one of the motoring rescue operations he was a member of.

In that short time that he talked to the householder he learnt they loved the theatre. Well, they’d been targeted from the start. There was no broken down car. When front row tickets for the latest show in London arrived by means of a thank you they drove to a West End multi-story car park.

Whilst the show was on the engine was lifted from their brand new luxury car and best of all, an old one was neatly fitted back.

So no matter how hard we try to protect our vehicle there will always be someone clever enough to steal it.